Surgery, 2 Marine Place, Rothesay, Bute

This is a mid to later 19th-century outbuilding and surgery, originally part of a symmetrical, single-storey house with an attic, located at 2 Marine Place, Rothesay, on the Isle of Bute. The house is three bays wide, with projecting bays at ground floor level on the outer left and right sides, and a recessed entrance beneath a decorative cast-iron porch. It is constructed of coursed yellow sandstone ashlar, with whitewashed harl to the sides and rear. The outer bays are channelled, with a roll-moulded string course and corniced eaves, topped by a blind balustraded parapet framing the centre. Sandstone mullions are used for the windows, and the attic openings are chamfered, with raised, whitewashed margins at the rear. An outbuilding of rubble sandstone, harl-pointed, is located to the northwest.

The east (entrance) elevation features steps leading to a two-leaf timber door, centred at ground level, with a replacement fanlight above. The porch is defined by stylised cast-iron pilasters, a plain frieze, and corniced eaves, with an architraved surround to a round-arched attic window above, secured with a raised keystone. Bipartite windows are located in the advanced bays at ground level on either side, with three-light canted dormers above.

The west (rear) elevation has an off-set, boarded timber porch to the left of centre, with small single windows flanking the entrance. A gabled window, possibly relating to a staircase, breaks through the eaves in the central bay. Single windows are positioned at ground level in the outer bays, with gabled dormer windows aligned above.

The front of the house has 2-pane and 4-pane timber sash and case windows; the central dormer has replacement glazing, and some lying-pane glazing is visible at the rear. The roof is covered in graded grey slate, with the dormers slate-hung. Whitewashed corniced apex stacks are present on the north and south sides, topped with various octagonal cans.

The interior was not inspected in 1996.

The north elevation of the outbuilding has a single window with lying-pane glazing in the penultimate bay to the outer left, with boarded timber doors in the remaining bays. This section is also covered with a graded grey slate roof, with a coped ridge stack and a decorative octagonal can. A roofless rubble addition extends from the outer left side.

Low, coped, whitewashed rubble boundary walls run along Marine Place and Ardbeg Road. Stop-chamfered, whitewashed, square-plan piers with pyramidal caps flank the entrance to Marine Place, with a replacement cast-iron pedestrian gate. Square-plan piers with square caps flank the pedestrian entrance off Ardbeg Road, with a timber gate.